A Minnesota company will supply the modular buildings that will be used to create a temporary campus for the 800 Lake Pontchartrain Elementary students displaced after Hurricane Isaac flooded their LaPlace school.

The temporary campus is planned on a vacant space in the rear of East St. John Elementary School in LaPlace. Construction is scheduled to start next month.

The St. John the Baptist Parish School Board awarded the nearly $1.2 million contract to Satellite Shelters, Inc. during a special meeting on Thursday. The company is expected to provide 15 buildings for classrooms.

"The completion of this project should be in time for when the kids come back from the holiday break," said Brad Guerin, an architect with Chasm and Fusion Architecture, the firm hired to oversee the project.

Guerin said the project is scheduled for completion around Christmas, which would give the school system about a week or more to move equipment and furnishings to the campus.

Lake Pontchartrain Elementary students in prekindergarten through eighth grade are currently dispersed on three separate campuses. Their school was severely damaged from Hurricane Isaac's floodwaters in 2012 and will have to be demolished.

School officials are negotiating with FEMA for money to help rebuild the school.

Meanwhile, school officials are building the temporary campus, which they expect to occupy by January.

The next phase of the project is to award bids for the installation of the modular buildings and site improvement on the site at East St. John Elementary. A bid for that job is expected to be approved on Nov. 7.

The School Board has approved $2.6 million design for the campus, which includes the cost of:

15 new modular buildings

30+ educational spaces

Administrative/restroom buildings

Covered walkways

New 40-car parking lot

New playground equipment

Renovation to existing cafeteria to accommodate new students

Architect design plans for Lake Pontchartrain Elementary temporary campus at East St. John Elementary School.